ÖGFA_Büchersalon 03: Easy Reader - Architecture & Feminisms

In November 2016 the AHRA conference Architecture & Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies, Technologies took place at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology) Stockholm. One year later, three publications – two journals and a book – offer a multi-faceted account of the diverse questions and methods used to approach important connections between architecture and feminisms.
With these three publications – the anthology Architecture and Feminisms and the special editions of Field Journal and Architecture and Culture – we have made an effort to create a space for as many of the voices, subjects and positions as possible, which gathered at the conference event. The assembled 59 contributions explore an abundance of different formats, from academic articles to poems, expressing a feminist project that necessarily acknowledges a plurality of positions.
We will offer brief presentations of the publications and the contributions “Suzanne Lacy’s International Dinner Party in Feminist Curatorial Thought” by Elke Krasny and “Reproductive Commons” by Julia Wieger.
Text: Karin Reisinger and Hélène Frichot

Presentations:
Hélène Frichot, Elke Krasny, Karin Reisinger,
Meike Schalk, Julia Wieger
Moderation:
Christina Linortner

Publications:
Architecture and Feminisms: Ecologies, Economies,Technologies
(edited by Hélène Frichot, Catharina Gabrielsson and Helen Runting, Routledge 2018)
Field Journal 7(1), “Becoming a Feminist Architect”
Architecture and Culture 5(3), “Styles of Queer Feminist Practices and Objects”
(both edited by Karin Reisinger and Meike Schalk)

Veranstaltung in englischer Sprache.
Büchertisch by Buchhandlung ChickLit

Hélène Frichot, Associate Professor, is director of Critical Studies of Architecture at KTH Stockholm, Sweden. Her research examines the transdisciplinary field between architecture and philosophy.

Elke Krasny, Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, works as a curator, cultural theorist, and writer. She focuses on architecture, urbanism, involved art practices and feminist curating.

Karin Reisinger, university lecturer at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Institute for Art and Architecture) and Vienna University of Technology (Institute of Art and Design), works at the intersections of architecture, ecologies and feminisms.

Meike Schalk, Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Urban Theory at KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm, part of the research group Action Archive and director of Architecture in Effect, researches on sustainability, democracy and participation.

Julia Wieger, senior scientist at the architecture department of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and member of VBKÖ, works on (collective) queer feminist productions of space, archive politics and history writing.